# HTTP communication

Web communication is done using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). To communicate on the web with HTTP you can use the `URLConnection</api/networking/urlconnection>` class, which has methods and properties that enable you to do all types of web communication such as retrieving the contents at a URL or posting to a form.

## Getting web content

You can send a web request to a URL to get back content. This content could be the actual content of a web page if you URL is a web page or it could be binary content if your URL is to a file or it could be data or some form if your URL points to a web service API call. To send these web requests you use the `URLConnection</api/networking/urlconnection>` class.